Tomáš Hanák (born March 27, 1957) is a Czech actor, comedian, screenwriter, and TV presenter who has appeared over several films and television shows since 1984. He is a also occasional singer.

Biography

Hanák was born in Kremnica, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). He spent two years in Cuba when he was a child with his parents traveling a lot, where his father worked as a representative of the PZO in the implementation of engineering contracts. From his youth he devoted himself to rowing and repeatedly cpmpeted as a representative of Czechoslovakia in non-socialist countries. He became a repeated champion of Czech Republic. After graduating from high school and a failed attempt to be admitted to the Faculty of the Academy of Performing of Arts in Prague, also began studying economics at the Charles University in Prague specialised in foreign trade and school was informally disseminate anti-socialist texts expelled. Tomáš Hanák was replaced during the life of a variety of jobs. Since 1977 he became active in the popular Czech theatre Sklep as an actor and writer. He played in many Czech films, commercials and programs especially on the Czech television. In 2005 he even appeared in the role as a woodsman in Hollywood movie The Brothers Grimm. He made recently acts on the show and appeared in Czech stand-up comedy Na stojáka, which can be viewed and aired on the channel HBO. In the 1990s as he openly recognized problems with alcohol, and has been sober since 1994.